Vibe coding leads to wonderful small apps. They become essential. They become official. And then the creator goes on vacation, and the whole thing collapses.
Vibe Coding is the fluid, intuition-driven process of building software where the barrier between idea and implementation dissolves. It leverages AI to turn intent directly into code, prioritizing immediate flow and utility over architectural purity.
It's agile, it's messy, and it's incredibly effective. We call this output JITware (Just-In-Time software). It bypasses the 6-month IT backlog and solves the "niche" problems that enterprise software ignores.
"I just wrote a python script to parse the PDFs because doing it manually was killing my soul." — Every Vibe Coder ever.
// quick_fix_v1.py
import pandas as pd
# TODO: Make this secure later
password = "admin123"
def magic_fix():
print("It works on my machine...")
From "Cool Trick" to "Existential Threat"
"Let me just whip something up."
A genuine innovation phase. A team member uses AI to script a bridge between two legacy systems. It saves the team 10 hours a week. Management is thrilled.
"Wait, don't change that, we need it."
The tool is now in the onboarding doc. It's sending emails to clients. It holds the "truth" for the Q3 projections. The creator is now the unofficial IT support for 20 people.
"The creator left. The server is down. Panic."
The Single Point of Failure triggers. Credentials are lost. Data is corrupt. The tool that saved 10 hours a week now costs the company $50k in downtime.
Knowledge is siloed in one human brain. If they leave, the codebase is a mystery.
API keys hardcoded in scripts. Shared passwords on sticky notes. Security nightmare.
GDPR data saved in a CSV on a desktop. No audit logs. No deletion policy.
A minor change in Salesforce API breaks the script. The entire department halts.
We don't want to stop the vibe. We want to solidify it.
Enhancement & Maintenance
A dedicated team (human + AI agents) that takes ownership of successful vibe apps. They don't kill the app; they professionalize it.
The creator hands off the repo. The Service Group takes the pager.
Hardcoded passwords removed. Vaults implemented. RBAC enforced.
The app is rewritten for scale, proper error handling, and speed.
When to trigger Hardening?
The Agentic Enterprise fuses human creativity with machine scale. By Offloading routine work to Agentic Development swarms, teams can Shed and Shift focus to high-value strategy.
Here, SpecDriven intent and Vibe Engineering replace rigid syntax. This empowers anyone to instantly generate JITware, tactical software created on demand without engineering overhead.